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"An Unexpected Mortality Increase in the United States Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume From Fukushima: Is There A Correlation?"
by Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman
Initial signs of the global health impact of the Fukushima disaster in the United States.
<http://www.radiation.org/reading/pubs/HS42_1F.pdf>
"North Korea's Justifiable Anger"
by Stansfield Smith
An anti-imperialist perspective on US conflict with North Korea.
<http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/10/north-koreas-justifiable-anger/>

Eve Ensler, best known for having written "The Vagina Monolgues," is
seeking to put an end to the worst rape problem in the world— the Congo. Ensler
deems the phenomenon "femicide": "'I have spent the past 10 years of my
life in the rape mines of the world,' she said. 'But I have never seen
anything like this.'" The playwright is [...]More

Thursday, 16 October 2008

Palin and Clinton can be differentiated based on their respective
relationships with castration. The phallus is symbolically removed by
the Law that orders the mother, through the intermediary of the child,
not to give it to herself. Palin exalts the complete power of a mother
who swallows her children and who effectuates a denial of the Law's
prevalence. Clinton, meanwhile, remains stuck in a stage that precedes
the feminization of society. She wants to compete with men. She
occupies a classic feminist position: She holds herself up as being
worthier than a man to carry the phallic signifier. Her activity is
limited to struggling for a place within the same structure. Palin,
though, no longer imitates men. She carries out a post-feminist
maneuver in which gender confrontation no longer exists—we are no
longer fighting the war between the sexes.
—Tülay Umay and Jean-Claude Paye at [...]More